Mailer groups urge Senate to vote on USPS Board Of Governors nominees

A group of mailers sent the following letter to U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson and Ranking Member Sen. Tom Carper. The letter is urging  Johnson and Carper to press the full Senate to vote on nominees for  USPS Board of Governors. In September 2015, APWU, Federal Unions and […]

Don’t Put Privatizer And Payday Lender Lobbyist On The USPS Board of Governors

With corporate-conservative calls for full or partial privatization of the United States Postal Service (USPS) escalating, groups are sounding the alarm about new nominees to the USPS Board of Governors. The Senate is scheduled soon to consider the nominations of Mickey D. Barnett, James C. Miller III and two other nominees. Miller is a notorious […]

Carper: If USPS Board of Governors nominees not confirmed soon=No quorum=No postal business

(November 13, 2014) WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, spoke on the Senate floor urging his colleagues to support the critical nominations approved by the committee and waiting for consideration on the full Senate floor. His statement, as prepared for delivery, follows: “Mr. President— I […]